Every style formed elaborately on any model must be affected and straight-laced.

Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.

Grit is the grain of character. It may generally be described as heroism materialized,--spirit and will thrust into heart, brain, and backbone, so as to form part of the physical substance of the man.

Nothing really succeeds which is not based on reality; sham, in a large sense, is never successful. In the life of the individual, as in the more comprehensive life of the State, pretension is nothing and power is everything.

Whenever you find humour, you find pathos close by its side.

The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets.

From Lucifer to Jerry Sneak there is not an aspect of evil, imperfection, and littleness which can elude the lights of humor or the lightning of wit.